The twenty-seventh meeting was held September 23-24, 2011,
at Xavier University. We extended our study of the history of modern algebra
by turning to the work that started it all: Evariste Galois'Mémoire sur les conditions de résolubilité des équations par radicaux,
written days before his too-early death in 1831 (pub. posthumously by Joseph
Liouville in his Journal de mathématiques pure et appliquées, 1846,
pp. 417-433). An English translation appears as an appendix in Harold M. Edwards'
Galois Theory (Springer, 1984).